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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>,
	"Jacob, Jerin" <Jerin.JacobKollanukkaran@cavium.com>,
	"Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)" <Gavin.Hu@arm.com>,
	Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>,
	"debayang. qdt" <debayang.qdt@qualcommdatacenter.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Correct use of Arm related names
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 10:48:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4526903.3jovrJyB05@xps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AM6PR08MB3672075F241CEAA02C6CF58F98E00@AM6PR08MB3672.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

10/10/2018 06:37, Honnappa Nagarahalli:
> Hi,
> This email was triggered by a request to change ARM to Arm in the dpdk.org webpage. I went down the path of finding out the correct names to use. There has not been consistency in using these names across all other projects. So, the recommendation I have got is, 'choose something and use it consistently' (within the DPDK project). Following are my recommendations (please notice the lower/upper case of the letters):
> 
> Architectural State:
> aarch64/arm64 - referring to aarch64 state - recommended: aarch64
> aarch32/arm32 - referring to aarch32 state - recommended: aarch32 (arm32 might create confusion with armv7)
> 
> ISA:
> armv8.x
> armv7.x
> 
> Any reference to Company name:
> Arm
> 
> So, everything is lower case except when referring to the company (for ex: Copyright) name.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any questions.

There is still confusion about when to use the arch name (aarch64)
or the ISA (armv8)?

For instance, the lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/arm/ directory
has files split by 32/64 arch. I thought it would make more sense to have
different low-level routines depending of the ISA.

Is it possible to have armv7 in aarch64?
Is it possible to have armv8 in aarch32?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-10  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-10  4:37 Honnappa Nagarahalli
2018-10-10  4:39 ` Honnappa Nagarahalli
2018-10-10  8:48 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]

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